New Life 783 – Going Up To The Torah
Dr. Michael Laitman in conversation with Oren Levi and Yael Leshed-Harel
What is the meaning of going up to the Torah, what is the spiritual stage called Bar Mitzvah, and what kind of process is a person beginning to go through when he reaches this stage?
The Torah [1] is the program of all of reality; it explains how the higher power operates on us.
Main points:
- Two forces come from the higher power [2]—right and left, and they are found in everything. A person must balance both of them.
- “And you shall love [3] your friend as yourself is the great general rule of the Torah” (Yerushalmi Nedarim Chapter 9) means that all options and situations will be directed for the benefit of others.
- Spiritually, going up to the Torah means reaching the middle line, the balance between the two forces.
- Going up to the Torah for a Bar Mitzvah indicates the maturation of a boy who is ready to achieve balance.
- There were Kabbalists who achieved balance before the age of 13, but most people don’t achieve balance until the end of their lives.
- To realize the Torah, we must be in a special society that aims toward balance between people.
- We must organize ourselves within a Minyan, a group of ten, a group, and through these connections between us, we discover the good, balancing force. This force connects us, balancing between our ten opposing egoistic forces.
- One cannot read the Torah except in a Minyan because reading the Torah is the discovery of the higher power.
- There is the Torah that explains reality; there is a Torah that operates as the Light that Reforms, and there is the Torah that is the discovery of the Creator.
- The Creator is the origin, the root of everything. All our tendencies in life are directed toward discovering our roots.
- Cohen, Levi, and Israel are practices that symbolize the different intensities of a corrected ego.
- The Holy Ark and the curtain symbolize the stages of intellectual and emotional development on the way toward discovery of the Torah.
- The cantillation signs: Taamim, Nekudot, Tagin and Otiot, are the four stages of attainment of the higher power.
- A person who organizes his inner desires according to the Torah and everything that is in it, is called a “man of Torah.”
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From KabTV’s “New Life 783 – Going Up To The Torah,” 10/25/16
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